Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Support for binary files, scalability and Windows port

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 01:11:14AM -0500, graydon hoare wrote:
> for a heavily edited file, it'll slowly get worse, but maybe you could 
> have a "defragment" routine which builds some fresh blocks (especially 
> if  a bunch of blocks appear with refcount=1; might as well toss them)

How does this interact with hash tree synchronization?  I.e., what
happens if I do
  $ monotone sync
  $ monotone db defrag
  $ monotone sync
?  Will this cause problems, since efficient hash tree synchronization
seems to depend on both sides using the same blocks?

-- Nathaniel

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